Cascais, assume-se na paisagem como uma referência harmoniosa na relação do Homem com a Natureza. Implantada a poente da barra do Rio Tejo, a sudeste do districto de Lisboa, esta vila cedo se definiu como um local predilecto para uma classe alta da sociedade que encontrava na me…
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This thesis is an exploratory study of moves and movements of the design discipline towards social and activist critical practices. It departs from a growing concern for design as a socially committed activity that has been around since the 1960s. The social turn, as we describe…
The formation of human capital is the main issue in this dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation discusses two alternative types of transferring human capital, in contrast to the transfer of human capital from parents to their children's education. These two types of …
In this dissertation I analyze economic and social conditions in households and neighborhoods in Upper Mesopotamia, ca. third millennium B.C.E. Most investigations of domestic residences in the ancient Near East have focused on elite residences. In contrast, I analyze wealthy an…
The systemic model of social disorganization posits that structural challenges impede the development of neighborhood networks responsible for informal social control, and thereby increase residents' involvement in crime. However recent studies suggest that in severely disadvant…
This is a dissertation about how Niamey, Niger is experienced in neighborhoods, through bodies, and around water. I examine the particular colonial and post-colonial historical processes that impacted development and distribution of Niamey's water infrastructure, and trace shift…
Over the years, neighborhoods across the country have undergone transformation. There has always been a tendency to examine the superficial causes of transformations. Several studies in the literature focus on racial transformation as a key driver of neighborhood change. This st…
The efforts for conservation of cultural heritage in historical settlements are highly problematic issue in Turkey. One of the main reasons for this is highly associated with the limited fiscal compensation provided by the central ministries and local bodies for those people who…
Urban vitality represents active street life in cities. Pedestrian density and diversity of the streets, which are the most important public spaces for cities, and also variety of pedestrian activity on the streets are the urban vitality indicators. Urban vitality enhances socia…
This dissertation examines the relationships between three specific types of places, including high schools, on-premise alcohol outlets, and Turkish coffeehouses, and crime on Turkish streetblocks. Its theoretical framework is grounded in an environmental criminology approach. R…
Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban spr…
Cities contain neighborhoods; surprisingly, so do some cemeteries. The urban Woodlawn Cemetery attracted a population reflecting the waves of late 19th and early to mid-20th century European immigrants moving through the Bronx at that time. Though having a choice, many Italians …
The East Side community is one of the last predominantly Black and working-class neighborhoods in the city of Charleston. Established in 1769, the East Side served as a space of relative safety and privacy for free and enslaved Black Charlestonians. Threatened by Black and worki…
Within more than a century’s worth of literature on housing inequalities, a new wave of research has emerged on the residential mobility process, which scholars frame as a key mechanism for understanding racial/ethnic residential stratification. The social structural sorting per…
While pedestrian-oriented urban places have been identified as beneficial in a number of fields, including public health and climate change, there is a shortage of quantitative studies of such places covering large geographic areas. This study characterizes neighborhoods in US m…
This dissertation comprises of two chapters related to the effects of displacement due to foreclosure and firm entry and one chapter related to cluster-randomized experiments.
The first chapter is joint with Rebecca Diamond and Timothy McQuade. We investigate the consequences of the 1994 rent-control expansion in San Francisco on tenants, landlords, and equilibrium outcomes in the rental market. Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental v…
Kentsel peyzaj planlamanın temel amacı; kent halkının fiziksel, sosyal, psikolojik ve ekonomik gereksinimlerini karşılayan ve aynı zamanda da kentlerin doğal ve kültürel peyzaj değerlerinin korunduğu donatı alanları oluşturmaktır. Hızlı ve düzensiz kentsel gelişimler sonucu kent…